Hilbre High School in Wirral, Merseyside Improves Parental Engagement With Call Parents Technology

Hilbre High School in Wirral, Merseyside is taking a proactive approach to improving communication with parents by installing Call Parents (www.callparents.com). This technology allows school staff to send texts, automated phone calls and emails to inform parents regularly about their child’s progress and school activities such as parents’ evenings and closures. Should parents not own a mobile phone, Call Parents translates the text into voice and delivers it to a landline phone. The Government recently announced that 82% of parents wished they had more information about their child’s